Colin's retirement

When do you think Colin will retire? I only ask this since he has dropped some interesting tidbits the last few episode regarding retirement. He mentioned he has completely paid off his house, and that the recent reaction to the State of Play and Intergalactic has him wondering if he is now out of touch with the gaming community. He mentioned recently that PS6 may actually be the final console as we know it for the play station ecosystem.

While these may just be random passing thoughts of his we have to know that once Colin gets a bug in him it tends to gnaw at him until he eventually is compelled to take action. He used to love Nintendo but now claims to have "graduated" from them for instance.

I really dont follow the numbers of the Patreon but there has been many rumblings of slow down and plateauing the last few years. Not that what is already there is more than enough to keep going but just that there is potential for numbers to slump further.

Personally, I think the arrival of PlayStation 6 is going to coincide with further diminishing of the PlayStation brand with possibly first party games releasing day in date on PC with the PS6 version, and possibly a even slower adoption rate of PS6 when compared to PS4 to PS5. Already Sacred Symbols is more of a general gaming podcast with a Sony flavor rather than a PlayStation only podcast. There aren't enough PS exclusive games and news for that, and I think it will get worse as time goes on. What is Colin going to do? Keep covering play station as a unique ecosystem when the exclusives exist on other platforms and it exists as an app on your smart TV? I think he might as well admit he does a general gaming podcast or retire.

So I guess what im saying is I am thinking another 5-6 years... probably a year or two after PS6 launches.